ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,872, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Analog content addressable memory for general computing" was invented by Lei Zhao (Ft. Collins, Colo.), Luca Buonanno (Milpitas, Calif.) and Giacomo Pedretti (Verbania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implementation, a device includes: a first inverter; a first sense amplifier connected to the first inverter; a first match line connected to the first sense amplifier; a first analog content addressable memory cell including: a first pull-down transistor; a second pull-down transistor, the first pull-down transistor and the seco...